The Massachusetts State Police served Miami Dolphins center Mike Pouncey with a grand jury subpoena less than an hour after the Patriots defeated the Dolphins 27-17 at Gillette Stadium on Sunday afternoon.

A source with knowledge of the matter told SI.com that the subpoena is related to the investigation into Aaron Hernandez, Pouncey's close friend and former teammate at the University of Florida. The source indicated that police are focusing in on Hernandez's potential involvement in interstate gun trafficking, which is being investigated by several agencies in multiple states -- at least Massachusetts, New York and Florida.

The extent of Pouncey's potential involvement is undetermined, but police are focusing on multiple transactions that involve him and Hernandez. "Organizationally, we do not have a comment," said Dolphins spokesman Harvey Greene. "And Mike Pouncey does not have a comment."

The lawsuit, filed in June, alleges that Hernandez shot his friend Alexander Bradley, 31, after the two socialized at a Miami strip club in February.

“Defendant asserts his rights under the Fifth Amendment and, therefore, declines to respond to the allegations,” the filing states 13 times in response to specific allegations contained in Bradley’s civil complaint.

According to a Florida police report, employees of a John tractor store discovered Bradley on Feb. 13 on the ground in the fetal position, bleeding from the head with his eyes swollen shut.

Questioned immediately after the shooting, Bradley told police he did not know who had shot him and refused to help them find his attacker, prompting them to close the investigation.

Four months later, Bradley named Hernandez as the shooter in the lawsuit, which states that he and Hernandez visited Tootsie’s Caberet and got into an argument while inside. While driving later toward Palm Beach, Hernandez pointed a gun at Bradley and fired — either intentionally or through extreme negligence, the lawsuit alleges. Bradley lost his right eye from the gunshot and underwent multiple surgeries...

Odin Lloyd's family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against former Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez, who is charged with Lloyd's murder, according to documents filed this week in Bristol County Superior Court.

Lloyd's estate is also asking a judge for a restraining order that would prohibit the New England Patriots from paying out more than three million dollars that Hernandez, 24, is believed to be owed from his contract.

In addition, the Lloyd family is requesting a restraining order for a real estate attachment up to $5 million that would prevent Hernandez from placing his spacious North Attleboro home beyond the court's reach for purposes of awarding damages...

As they should irrespective whether or not Hernandez may or may not be found guily OR be acquitted. Orenthal James was acquitted but the Brown and Goldman families won in civil court on a "wrongful death" suit against Orenthal... Granted, they'll never see the judgement dollar wise but they still won.

In my opinion, the Odin Lloyd family has every right to move forward with this suit.

While the documents make it clear that it is unknown who pulled the trigger, investigators allege that video evidence show a vehicle -- allegedly driven by Hernandez -- circling the block, waiting for the victims to exit the club and to get to their car, seemingly stalking them before the shooting.

Police say video shows Hernandez arriving at 12:04 a.m. early that morning, driving a 2006 Toyota 4Runner, and additional video then shows him entering Cure nightclub immediately behind the victims, according to the affidavit.

The document provides a narrative, based on video evidence, that details Hernandez’s alleged movements on the night of the double shooting.

Hernandez and an accomplice - who investigators later identified as Alexander Bradley - were recorded on tape during their time in the club. He spent just 10 minutes inside, downing two drinks, before exiting, the documents state.

The victims did not exit the club until after 2 a.m., and at 2:32 a.m Boston police responded to a report of six shots fired.

Witnesses told police that an SUV resembling the one driven that night by Hernandez pulled up next to the vehicle driven by the victims and one of the occupants opened fire.

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But, just days after Hernandez was formally implicated in the Lloyd murder investigation, a tipster called police to tell them that he believed Lloyd’s killing was tied to the South End shootings.

The tipster, who was later identified as a security supervisor at Rumor Nightclub -- where Lloyd and Hernandez had partied two nights before Lloyd’s killing -- said that the Lloyd killing was linked to the South End killing. Asked how he knew that, he told police: “someone accidentally spilled the beans in front of me.”

Investigators have filed a search warrant to obtain jailhouse phone calls made by Bradley, who has been imprisoned after he skipped out on a grand jury subpoena, in which he allegedly discusses the details of the double murder.

Prosecutors will not call Carlos Ortiz to testify against Aaron Hernandez at trial because they believe Ortiz is "completely unreliable," according to new documents filed Friday in superior court.

Ortiz, 27, also made a "proffer" — an offer made prior to the start of formal negotiations — during a meeting with prosecutors, according to a Dec. 16 letter that Hernandez's lawyers sent to First Assistant District Attorney William McCauley, one of the lead prosecutors in the Hernandez murder case.

For months, Ortiz, a codefendant charged with accessory to murder after the fact, was thought to be a key prosecution witness against Hernandez, 24, the former Patriots star tight end who is charged with the June 17, 2013, murder of Odin Lloyd in the North Attleborough Industrial Park.

When he was first arrested last summer in his hometown of Bristol, Conn., Ortiz told police that Hernandez and Ernest Wallace, 44, were outside their vehicle in the industrial park when Lloyd was shot five times with a .45-caliber handgun. Ortiz said he was sleeping, heard a gunshot and then saw Wallace and Hernandez return to the vehicle.

Ortiz also recounted conversations between Hernandez and Lloyd in the vehicle, told police that he saw Hernandez carrying a handgun and made apparent references to Hernandez's alleged "flophouse" in Franklin, which "other football players used" and where investigators said they found evidence, including clothing and ammunition, according to court documents.

Those police reports fueled speculation that Ortiz would be the prosecution's star witness. But in recent months, it came to light that Ortiz had changed his story to say Hernandez was alone with Lloyd outside the vehicle...

"HARTFORD — A man who accused former New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez of shooting him in the eye last February was shot again Sunday outside a Hartford bar, and now is in custody after, police say, he retrieved a gun from his car and fired at the front of the bar in retaliation.

Alexander Bradley, 31, an East Hartford native who formerly was a close friend of Hernandez, was shot three times in the leg by an unknown gunman outside Vevo Lounge in Hartford's South End."

I wonder what actual evidence they will have to prosecute this tool with, seems their case is falling apart at the seams.

Did they ever find the weapon ?

Everything they have other than that seems circumstantial or ... hearsay.

Dude's goin for a ride , but he may beat the rap.

Hmmm . . Listening to NFL Network today. The prosecution is panicking. The star witness is completely unreliable, and will not testify. They are still searching for the weapon, and if they haven't found it by now, they never will.